Veterans organizations fighting for medical marijuana access reacted with both hope and skepticism to President Donald Trump’s latest shakeup at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Trump ousted VA Secretary David Shulkin via tweet late Wednesday and announced that he would nominate for the position Dr. Ronny Jackson, 50, an active-duty rear admiral in the Navy who…

LANSING, Mich. — Michigan regulators said Thursday that they ordered the closure of 210 medical marijuana businesses over a two-week period, largely because their owners failed to apply for a state license by a mid-February deadline or did not receive authorization from their municipalities. Most of the shops — 158 — were in Detroit. Authorities…

On March 27, about two dozen cannabis advocates rallied at the John A. Wilson Building, the seat of Washington, D.C.’s municipal government, handing out joints and seeds to the public — and even getting at least one councilmember to accept a joint. After the activists moved into the building, they settled outside the room where…

Last week Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a memo encouraging federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty for certain drug trafficking offenses. Federal law allows for capital punishment in drug trafficking cases involving murder or homicide. But the attorney general also specifically called out one provision that allows for capital punishment in cases involving “extremely…

Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the Trump administration’s notorious anti-drug hard-liner at the top of the Justice Department, has issued a memorandum calling on federal attorneys to pursue capital punishment in “appropriate cases” of “drug-related prosecutions” — including for those “dealing in extremely large quantities of drugs.” The memo referenced the “opioid epidemic,” and made no mention…